Santa Fe Trail-Rice County Segment 1 (Boundary Increase)

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.

From the record

One of 11 National Register listings published here for Rice County · listed in 2013 · category: Site.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Jct. 4th Rd. & Ave. L, Chase, 67524
When was it listed? July 2013
Category. site
Also known as. Santa Fe Trail MPS
Township. Pioneer township
National Register reference number. 13000495 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

9 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Santa Fe Trail-Rice County Segment 1 (Boundary Increase) between 1994 and 2020, burning about 5,401 acres in total. 2 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Natural	2
Debris and open burning	2
Smoking	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
29 July 2018	Natural	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	729
21 June 1994	Natural	under an acre	Quivira National Wildlife Refuge	CITY SERV
6 April 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kansas Forest Service	not named
18 April 1996	Smoking	340 acres	Quivira National Wildlife Refuge	DEER STAND
4 March 1994	Equipment and vehicle use	75 acres	Quivira National Wildlife Refuge	SMITH
30 March 1994	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Quivira National Wildlife Refuge	BUNKHOUSE
16 March 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kansas Forest Service	231615
16 March 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4,960 acres	Quivira National Wildlife Refuge	SYLVIA

Every fire recorded in Rice County

Storms near this property

49 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chase, the town this property stands in, in 49 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 21 thunderstorm wind, 20 hail, 4 flood, 2 heavy rain. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 1998	Lightning	Chase	$50,000	Lightning set fire to two oil tank batteries.
April 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Chase	$5,000	Some minor shingle damage occurred in town. One homeowner reported a damaged carport.
April 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Chase	$5,000	Shed blown down.
September 2018	Flood	Chase	$100	Local law enforcement reported numerous roads were flooded across the county.
August 2023	Heavy Rain	Chase	-	Rainfall in the past 24hours of 2.78 inches.
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Chase	-	A trained spotter reported the gust along with pea size hail.
June 2019	Hail	Chase	-	Report relayed via Twitter.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Chase	-	Delayed report from a storm chaser.
October 2017	Tornado (EF0)	Chase	-	Sheet metal was torn away from the roof and deposited to the north and northwest. Another nearby structure not attached to the ground was turned over to the south. All other debris damage in the county was blown towards the northeast.
August 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Chase	-	Reports were received, via Twitter, of a 6-inch diameter limb that was blown down. Time of event is estimated from radar.
September 2014	Heavy Rain	Chase	-	Rainfall report via twitter measured 4.10 inches.
July 2013	Flood	Chase	-	The emergency manager reported numerous water-covered roads throughout the county.
April 2009	Flood	Chase	-	Heavy rainfall from numerous thunderstorms during the afternoon and evening hours of the 26th produced widespread flooding across much of Rice county, with the exception of far northwest portions of the county. Numerous primarily rural roads remained submerged through early on the 28th. Some street flooding also occurred in Sterling on the 26th, and likely also occurred for other communities across the county. Unfortunately, property and crop damage estimates are unavailable.
May 2008	Hail	Chase	-	Report of hail via law enforcement.
August 2007	Flood	Chase	-	County Road H was closed northwest of Highway 56 due to high water.
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Chase	-	Large branches downed.
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Chase	-	Limbs 3 inches in diameter downed.
April 2025	Hail	Chase	-	no account filed
May 2017	Hail	Chase	-	no account filed
May 2014	Hail	Chase	-	no account filed
April 2013	Hail	Chase	-	no account filed
February 2007	Hail	Chase	-	no account filed
May 2005	Hail	Chase	-	no account filed
June 2005	Hail	Chase	-	no account filed
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Chase	-	no account filed
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Chase	-	no account filed
July 2005	Hail	Chase	-	no account filed
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Chase	-	no account filed
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Chase	-	no account filed
March 2002	Hail	Chase	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Chase	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Chase	-	no account filed
April 2002	Hail	Chase	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Chase	-	no account filed
August 2002	Hail	Chase	-	no account filed
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Chase	-	no account filed
June 2001	Hail	Chase	-	no account filed
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Chase	-	no account filed
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Chase	-	no account filed
September 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Chase	-	no account filed
September 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Chase	-	no account filed
June 2000	Hail	Chase	-	no account filed
June 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Chase	-	no account filed
June 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Chase	-	no account filed
June 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Chase	-	no account filed
June 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Chase	-	no account filed
May 1996	Hail	Chase	-	no account filed
May 1996	Hail	Chase	-	no account filed
May 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Chase	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Rice County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

1 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Santa Fe Trail-Rice County Trail Segments	0.3 miles	1995

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 13000495 in Record Group 79.
Rice County	All 11 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.